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Planet Money Summer School

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Economics is a game you should know how to play. And once you get the fundamental concepts, you start to see it everywhere: the news, the supermarket and even your dating life. So it's time to learn the rules. Planet Money Summer School is a crash course in economics for your ears. See the world through the lens of an economist and you'll start to feel a little less overwhelmed when making financial decisions. And if you're in front of the classroom? Teachers, this is made for you, too. Let us be your breezy and fun companion to assigned readings. We'll even assign the homework (and spare you...

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Intro Econ 6: Taxes & Donald Duck 12.08.2020 25:47

The surprisingly entertaining history of the income tax. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here . See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences. NPR Privacy Policy

Intro Econ 5: Trade & Santa 05.08.2020 24:55

The economics of free trade and what happens when governments get involved. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here . See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences. NPR Privacy Policy

Intro Econ 4: Scarcity & Pistachios 29.07.2020 26:56

Class 4 brings us an economic conundrum: how do you efficiently share a scarce resource? | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here . See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences. NPR Privacy Policy

Intro Econ 3: Profit & Cocaine 23.07.2020 26:09

In our third class, we take all that we've learned about decisions and markets and bring it to a former drug kingpin. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here . See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences. NPR Privacy Policy

Intro Econ 2: Markets & Pickles 16.07.2020 29:42

In our second class, we meet our old friends supply and demand and do graphs using only the power of the human voice. Then, we show you how markets can be created anywhere by telling the story of a food bank that had too many pickles and not enough pancake syrup. It's economics to the rescue. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here . See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and u...

Intro Econ 1: Choices & Dating 08.07.2020 31:02

First lesson: Economics is not about money. It's a lens of great power and beauty. In this episode, we meet our teachers and learn the first four fundamental concepts of economic thinking, and watch them applied to things like dating and hailing a cab. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here . See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and t...

Introducing Planet Money Summer School 06.07.2020 2:00

Introducing an economics education for your ears! We're calling it Planet Money Summer School . It's all the economics you meant to learn, but didn't get around to. Each Wednesday, we'll serve up a Planet Money story, or selection of excerpts, paired with insights from our economists-in-residence for the summer. Get an understanding of the basic concepts of economics going to the beach. You can pi...